Pats vs. Colts - your prediction?

SSSnail

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Pats gonna play the Colts tomorrow night, who's coming out a winner? for some reasons, I think this game will be one sided both halves; the first half Pats will be on fire, then fizzle and second half Colts returns the fire.

My prediction is that Pats will win by 2 TD's, but overall scores won't be high as everyone expected.
 

Red Dawn

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I'm a Pat's fan but I'd be surprised if they beat the Colts. They look great against shitty teams but they haven't really played a good team yet.
 

MotF Bane

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Colts will probably win. I'm a Pats fan, and I hate Peyton... but they'll probably get it done.
 
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I'm a Pat's fan but I'd be surprised if they beat the Colts. They look great against shitty teams but they haven't really played a good team yet.

You could argue that the Colts haven't either. In fact, at least the Patriots beat Atlanta and Baltimore, which I'd say are the two toughest teams either of these two have played. Well, maybe the Broncos, but they lost to them so...

I think it will be another good game between them, but I'd give the edge to the Patriots. I think it will depend a lot on how much Freeney gets to Brady and how well the Patriot linebackers/secondary holds up.

24-21 Pats, with Vinatieri missing a game tying field goal late.
 
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SlitheryDee

The Colts feel like the best overall team in the NFL right now, with the possible exception of mah Saints. The Pats are hot though. I'm calling it Colts by a TD or less, but I really feel it could go either way.
 

herkulease

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You could argue that the Colts haven't either. In fact, at least the Patriots beat Atlanta and Baltimore, which I'd say are the two toughest teams either of these two have played. Well, maybe the Broncos, but they lost to them so...

I think it will be another good game between them, but I'd give the edge to the Patriots. I think it will depend a lot on how much Freeney gets to Brady and how well the Patriot linebackers/secondary holds up.

24-21 Pats, with Vinatieri missing a game tying field goal late.

That's already given. He's not even playing. They signed Matt Stover for a reason.
 

foghorn67

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Colts are scrappy. I say Colts, by a really narrow down to the last play type of thing.
 

dbk

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BUTCH1

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A lot will depend on how much Freeney/Mathis can disrupt Brady, Indy is starting 2 rookies on the corners and Brady's going to try to exploit that and the fact that Sanders is out too. If you can force Brady to throw earlier than he want's to, the corner situation might not hurt the Colts too badly. I'm a Patriot fan but I have to just admire Manning, he just gets better every season it seems, only way to stop him and DC is to maintain possession of the ball. Love 'em or hate 'em These guy's ARE the Bird/Johnston of the NFL and we get the treat of watching 2 future HOF QB's go at it tonight, enjoy everyone!!.
 

rise

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You could argue that the Colts haven't either. In fact, at least the Patriots beat Atlanta and Baltimore, which I'd say are the two toughest teams either of these two have played. Well, maybe the Broncos, but they lost to them so...

I think it will be another good game between them, but I'd give the edge to the Patriots. I think it will depend a lot on how much Freeney gets to Brady and how well the Patriot linebackers/secondary holds up.

24-21 Pats, with Vinatieri missing a game tying field goal late.
i agree with this. not necessarily the score but pats will win this game.

i think the pats have the personnel on D to contain manning. hopefully they don't play the corners 10-15 yards deep and allow them to dink and dunk down the field ala denver.

as well as manning has played this year he's done it against some really bad pass d's in fact 7 of their wins have come against teams ranked in the bottom 10 in passing d. and the other win was against seattle.

and yeah, the pats have actually played a tougher schedule to this point than the colts.
 

MrMatt

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PAAAAAAAAAAATS motherfucker. My 2nd favorite game each year is the Pats - Colts game, 2nd only to the SuperBowl (if the Pats are in) or 3rd favorite, if they meet again in the playoffs.
 
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freaking domes...crank up the air-con assist and the amped crowd noise, yay! at least dallas has the decency to cut a hole in the roof.

pats win by 7
 

spidey07

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Huge colts fan here. I'd be surpised if we win the way we played the last two games. Line says colts be 3 so I'll Agee with it. Funny fact is thus is something like 22 games and viniteri has been in them all but he's on IR for the rest of the season.